may day kitty from 2022 i never posted here apparently. happy international workers' day!
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🔴 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:
O workers and free people of the world, unite against the enemies of humanity.
Long live the first of May, and long live the struggle of our people.
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Monday May 1.
May Day.
Today is a day that requires little introduction. It is #may day, otherwise known as #international workers day or Labour Day. Celebrated every year on May 1, or the first Monday of May, it marks a day of celebration and solidarity between laborers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labor movement. It is a national public holiday in many countries across the world and has a fascinating, inspiring history. The Marxist International Socialist Congress met in Paris in 1889, where they established the Second International as a successor to the International Workingmen's Association. It was here they established a resolution for a "great international demonstration" to support demands for an eight-hour working day from the working classes. Today's date, May 1, was selected by the American Federation of Labor to mark a general strike in the United States. This strike began on this date in 1886, and subsequently became an annual event. In 1904, the Sixth Conference of the Second International called for "all Social Democratic Party organizations and trade unions of all countries to demonstrate energetically on the First of May for the legal establishment of the eight-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat, and for universal peace". But it is not just consigned to history, by any means, because #may day continues to this day.
There are strikes, marches, rallies, and protests across the world today marking May Day. The struggle continues, but today is also the celebration. Wherever you are across the world, and however you're spending International Worker's Day 2023, we wish you love, light, and solidarity in the fight for better.
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Countries by when International Workers' Day or Labour Day is celebrated
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It’s May Day
you know what that means. it’s also international workers day!
highly recommend picking up the following books from our collection!
Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America by Miriam Frank
My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor History by Allan Bérubé
Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America by Margot Canaday
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https://asf-iwa.org.au/
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index
https://sequr.homes/
http://tutas.org.au/
https://wsfpakistan.pk/
https://www.twu.com.au/
https://www.amazonlaborunion.org/
https://libcom.org/
https://www.accc.gov.au/
https://www.splcenter.org/
https://www.auwu.org.au/
https://www.iww.org/
https://www.iwa-ait.org/
https://www.cnt-ait.org/
https://www.fairwork.gov.au/
https://unitedworkers.org.au/
https://www.australianunions.org.au/
https://audioanarchy.org/
https://www.akpress.org/
https://deathtofascism.com/files/40ways.online.2020.pdf
https://sbworkersunited.org/
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almost forgot to post art of my little communist guy for may 1 😳
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An event from the story known as the Ruhr Uprising of 1876. Brandt and other groups rose against the Kaiser, only to be utterly crushed. This led to his exile in England.
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